Emeritus ProfessorDavid Marshall

Emeritus Professor

Faculty of Arts and Education/Office of the Executive Dean Arts and Education

TEACHING EXPERTISE

Expertise Summary
Persona, Persona Studies, Public Personalities, Celebrity, Popular Culture,
The Link Between Popular and Political Culture, New Media, Online Culture,
Public Persona, Stardom, Social Media, Links between Media Forms, Leadership
Studies, Reputation, Self-branding, Advertising and Promotional Culture,
Communication, The Attention Economy, Representational Media, Presentational
Media, Intercommunication.
- Communication

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ALC314 Advertising: Designing Desires
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Status and Function of Inanimate 'Object-Actors' in Cyborg Theatre
    Gorkem Acaroglu - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Finding the Edge: Online persona creation in fringe art-forms
    Kim Barbour - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Toxic Celebrity
    Allison Maplesden - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Communication of Diabetes' Health Campaign Information in Remote Botswana.
    Lovie Edwin Seru - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2014
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    From Exclusion to Agency in Papua: Pagar Adat Papua (the Papuan Customary Framework) as a Culture-Centred Approach to HIV and AIDS Communication
    Meylani Meylani - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Identity Factory: Tennis Personas in Production
    Adriana Christina Szili - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Concerning: a Technique for Critique in a Digitally Mediated Civilisation
    Neil Henderson - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    New to the game: AFLW, Twitter and the circulation of new fan publics
    Timothy Boots - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Communism, Croatians and Conspiracy: An Australian Story
    Natalia Vedric - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2026